SALE OF “TATT’S” TICKET
TOBACCONIST PINED £7 10s. POSSIBILITY OF AN APPEAL. (By TeU-grapti —Press Association.) . DUNEDIN, April 18. A decision was given this morning by the magistrate, Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M., in the case in which Yivian Simeon Jacobs, tobacconist, was charged with receiving 6s for a ticket in Tattersall’s sweep- After reviewing the .case Mr Bundle amended the charge to one of selling a ticket. He convicted the defendant and fined him £7 10s and cots. . It was intimated that entry of judgment would be suspended till April 29 to enable counsel to consider the question of appeal. ■Similar charges against other shopkeepers were adjourned to the same date.
Giving judgment Mr Bundle agreed that no offence was disclosed under section 41c, which limited the offence to lotteries in New Zealand, but he held that the defendant was guilty under section 14b—“selling or disposing.’ ’ The whole of the surrounding circumstances under which ,an utter stranger made an application for a ticket and the acceptance of his request as part of the business carried on showed that the defendant was an agent for the sale.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 20 April 1935, Page 5
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